[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[Matt Flyer]

In actuality, I consider myself to be politically moderate.  It would
probably surprise you that there are some very conservative measures
that I agree with and some aggressively liberal ones that I support.

For example, I whole heatedly support the concept of Bortz's Fair Tax. 
I think it has tremendous amount of value and makes a lot of sense.  I
am opposed to gun control, which I believe was the founding fathers' way
of putting a reset switch in the system. 

On the other hand, I think that insurance is absolutely the wrong
financial model for health care.  In my estimation, insurance is
something that you pay a small premium against the risk of a
potentially, but usually unlikely event.  Health care is a cost not an
unlikely event.  I don't believe that America uses an insurance model
because of its merits.

I do believe that there are some things that the public sector can do
better than the private sector.  Providing services to the public and
supporting infrastructure are two of them.   I believe that we need to
effectively leverage the benefits of both of these.  If change means
that some private company loses its livelihood so be it.  I do NOT
believe that the pursuit of profit was either a deity or
constitutionally given right. 

In this particular instance, I think this bill is just plain wrong. I
see it as trying to solve a problem that does not presently exist.  I
see it is an attempt by a certain interest group to ensure their future
profitability at the expense of the people in general.

I believe that the new CEO of Intel put it absolutely correct in a
recent interview with NPR when he said that while America is on top with
regards to technical innovation and productivity, we are heading in the
wrong direction and unless we change course we won't be for very long. 
I believe that the attitudes and actions of Corporate America bears a
very large portion of the blame for this, while the other aspect of it
is a misguided populace.

I believe spending billions on places like Iraq and Afghanistan and
cutting funding for kindergarten and the mentally disabled while giving
tax breaks to corporations is absolutely disgusting and disgraceful.

I believe that the Republicans and their corporate backers have been
abusing their position.  To me it looks like they are using their wealth
to BUY a political system designed to further their financial interest
regardless of the costs to others.  I see them supporting a joke of a
school system because it furthers their interests. 

I see a political party using things like Gay Marriage and abortion, and
"we will create jobs" as distractions to cause people to vote for them
to further their own interests.

I see a corporate controlled media that is designed to provide "the
great distraction" (which IS meant as a reference to Hitler's great lie
concept) and ensure that only their side gets heard.  I see them wanting
to take away funding from programs like NPR which give a view other than
the hate speech and rhetoric that dominates Republican media.

I believe "trickle down" economics doesn't work.  Giving money to the
wealthy or the corporations does not create jobs, except maybe in
China.  They only horde it further.  If you put money at the bottom it
works its way up because the guy at the bottom has no choice but to
spend it.

I believe that this country is on the brink of becoming a Fascist State
with a ruling class: a modern day Monarchy if you will.


On 03/16/2011 08:13 AM, David Hostetler wrote:
> Well clearly the anti-bill folks here are really just socialist in
> nature and nothing said to the contrary will be convincing enough.  OK
> comrade Flyer, you must be right, all socialist theories are well and
> good and even though capitalism has been shown through history to be
> more stable your idea is definitely better....   Or you're being quite
> foolish.
>